Steve Martin Quotes

VERSATI Herr Maske, let me ask you a philosophical question. THEO I enjoy a good philosophical question as much as the next fellow. COHEN (Who is sitting next to Theo.) How would you know that? THEO Know what? COHEN Well, I am the next fellow and how would you know you enjoy them as much as I? THEO (Ignores him.)

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

I have found that — just as in real life — imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Enjoyment while performing was rare — enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego’s last stand.

If there were a silent observer, Mirabelle would be seen as a carefree, happy girl who is preparing for a night on the town. But in reality, these activities are the physical manifestations of her stillness.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found that — just as in real life — imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea which looks almost like the Mediterranean. He would have noted how the streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath. How laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight. Had he been facing seaward on a balcony overlooking the city the writer might have heard drifting out of a tiny apartment window the optimistic voice of a shower singer imbued with the conviction that this is a place where it is possible to be happy.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

There’s a rumor that a recent Oscar host is going to play Catwoman. Waiting by my phone for the call.